Wn302 Fort d´Ormonville
WN · K.V.U.Gruppe Joburg · AOK 7 Normandy · France
Wn302 Fort d´Omonville
1 x Vf/Skoda fortress bunker.
1 x SK/MG Schartenstand.
1 Vf/MG Stand.
1 x 4.7cm Pak K.36(t).
Wn302 Fort d´Omonville
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Wn302 Fort d´Omonville
Fort d´Omonville Corps de Garde Type 1846. Trying to do my research, not easy but I think this is the smaller type. No3 20Hommes 4 cannon. The larger version below has one floor with large arched rooms. A flat roof with crenelated walls to fire over. A drawbridge entrance and outside areas for cannons to be laid out.
1947
Wn302 Fort d´Omonville
The road in lined with German barbed wire picket posts ''Eisenpfahel ''.
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The fort set on a small promontory with a large hill behind. A curtain wall has been built climbing the hill and a lookout placed on the top. All this is prior to WW1 period, wars against the English mostly. They were so troublesome lot always trying to get France back for themselves. Corps de Garde were the part of the French army that protected its vast coast and borders. There are many of these forts all around the coast. I have seen a small lookout near Boulogne-sur-Mer to lovely castle type forts in Brittany. On the Utah beach area are many small forts also turned into Wn defences by the Germans.
Wn302 Fort d´Omonville
The main gate with a defence in the corner.
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The defence on the left of the gate.
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SK/MG Schartenstand.
Interestingly there is a gun fitting for a 4.7cm Pak K.36(t) on the grass bank and this may have been Vf/Skoda fortress bunker or maybe that could be further over??
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Gun fitting for a 4.7cm Pak K.36(t) still set into the embrasure door..
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The fort. It would have had a flat roof, crenellated to allow troops to fire rifles from the roof.
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Now this maybe the rear entrance to the 4.7cm Pak K.36(t)
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A long walk up the hill.
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Eisenpfahel - Iron pile or Iron post.
German Eisenpfahel barbed wire posts, either still in place or re used by the farmer. Dig a hole, place the lower square plate in hole, re fill the earth. Tamp it down with your boot and its secure, ready for barbed wire. Very hard to get back out of the ground at a later date.
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Vf/MG Stand on the curtain wall.
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Wn302 Fort d´Omonville
Defensive rifle embrasures in the curtain wall.
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Vf/MG Stand on the hill.
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The walk along the GR223 coast path. John clearing the way for me. I employ him to do this.
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Still going but he is getting out of puff.
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Vf/MG Stand.
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Vf/MG Stand.
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More ''Eisenpfahel ''.
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Rommel’s Asparagus. These are made of concrete, some were made locally but also a large number were manufactured in the Paris concrete works now redundant from their usual productions and turned over to war work.
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Pointe de Jardeheu Wn304a.
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The views towards Castel Vendon.
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Jean-François Millet painter from Greville in the Hague has inspired great painters and the very first of them to admire and be inspired by Van Gogh. This picture is in the Orsay museum has been "renovated" works of the Cotentin.
Jean-François Millet